Modern social care presents the contemporary social care worker with a number of social and personal challenges. In order to address this issue I will take an autobiographical approach based on my own personal life experiences in a social care context and blend it with my learning during the college process. Firstly I would like to state that the views and experiences expressed in this essay are not general statements directed at the travelling community as a whole but just my own personal experiences
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Cultural Awareness: Nursing Care of Iraqi Patients” is an article explaining cultural differences that are broadly scattered affecting military nurses care for Iraqi patients. Shortly after this issue developed‚ a study was constructed in means to find barriers between Iraqi patients and their nurses. By utilizing topical examination strategies‚ the data was analyzed and results showed significant cultural variations in communication‚ diet‚ and reference to orientation and dependency. Furthermore
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Patient Safety/Quality Care/Improvement Case Study 1. Overview of what are medical errors and possible consequences of such errors? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines medical errors as “the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.” Medical errors do not all result in harm or injury. Medical errors that cause injury or harm are sometimes called preventable adverse events – that is the injury is thought to be due to a medical intervention
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Patient safety culture plays an important role for the whole health care team. It has been an aspect for the quality of health care delivery. The complexnature of critical care increases the opportunity formedical errors (Stockwell &Slonim 2006). Patient safety culture is based on the health care team’s commitment to caring‚ their competencies‚ attitude throughout the care and how proficient they are on caring a patient. Upon ensuring the patient’s safety culture‚ it is also considered as prevention
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experience to understand the meaning of that experience for the individual” (Ashby‚ 2006 p.28). Reflective practice is vital to the nursing profession. Although there is little evidence based information of the benefits of reflective practice (Schutz‚ 2007)‚ there are many benefits pertaining to reflective practice and resulting in a holistic patient approach and therefore nurses are able to provide better care. There are many models available to use to reflect on situations in a nurse’s practice and
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I was once told that Occupational Therapy (OT) is a rare blend of science and humanism‚ intellectual rigour and compassion‚ and when asked to reflect on my first year as an OT student‚ I simply could not agree more. When introduced to OT at the Wits Career’s Day I was instantly impressed by the wide scope of practice that OTs have after completing a basic degree and by the holistic nature of treatment. It is an application requirement of the Health Sciences department that each OT applicant completes
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Teaching Plan: Tracheostomy Care for Patients and Family upon Home Discharge Patients who undergo a tracheostomy and their family must demonstrate understanding and performance of the following objectives: 1. The anatomical changes related to the procedure. 2. Management of a tracheostomy. 3. The importance of humidification and suctioning in maintaining airway patency. 4. Awareness of possible problems/complications in tracheostomy management. A normal breathing pattern draws air
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diabetic patients for being compliant with their medications. Furthermore‚ learning how to counter the arguments that a smoker presents when convincing them to quit brought out the person in me who wants to help people by addressing their utmost concerns. The decision of getting residency training in USA and work as a doctor of medicine here‚ has a complex background. I have always been surrounded by the idea that I have to be more than who I am and training in one of the best health care system in
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semester proceeds. This course has helped me gain the edge to make my papers much better than they were before I had taken this class. The hardest thing about writing in my opinion is the transitions between points in my essays. This is the main thing that takes points off of all my essays. I will really need to improve on this if I expect to be a great college writer‚ so this will be my main point of emphasis as the course moves on into the second semester. I hope to have this mastered by the second semester
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Health Care Essay. This essay is based upon Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The definition of ADHD determined by Oxford Dictionaries (2012) is; any of a range of behavioural disorders occurring primarily in children‚ including such symptoms as poor concentration‚ hyperactivity‚ and learning difficulties. It is argued by some that ADHD is not an illness but an ‘easy’ way for parents to excuse deviant behaviour‚ some peoples opinion is that the label of ADHD provided a way for parents
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